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7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids
verb place out of sight; keep secret
originFirst directly attested in 1728; attested as the past-participial adjective secreted in 1707: from Latin sēcrētus, perfect passive participle of sēcernō (“to separate”); reinforced by back-formation from secretion; compare secern; cognate with French sécréter and the Spanish secretar.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
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- cetes 7
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- crest 7
- erect 7